S72 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

715 of the district's 838 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.57880, -1.39119, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in S72

Companies House lists 951 companies with a registered office in S72; 301 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for S72

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Barnsley
• Cudworth
• Grimethorpe
• Shafton
• Great Houghton
• Brierley
• Wakefield
• South Hiendley
• Middlecliffe
• Billingley
• Little Houghton
• South Kirkby

Roads filed under S72

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbey Farm View
• Abbots Close
• Acacia Grove
• Acorn Way
• Acre Road
• Albert Crescent
• Albert Street
• Alice Close
• Almond Avenue
• Anne Crescent
• Ashleigh
• Ashley Drive
• Ash Mount
• Ash Road
• Ashwell Close
• Ashwood Grove
• Back Lane
• Bank Street
• Barnfold Place
• Barn Owl Close
• Barnsley Road
• Bateman Close
• Batty Avenue
• Bedale Walk
• Bedford Street
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Close
• Beech Road
• Bellcross Gardens
• Belle Green Close
• Belle Green Gardens
• Belle Green Lane
• Belmont
• Belmont Crescent
• Belvedere Close
• Billingley Green Lane
• Birkdale Close
• Birkwood Avenue
• Blacker Lane
• Bleak Avenue
• Bleakley Close
• Bloemfontein Street
• Boundary Drive
• Bow Street
• Braemar Croft
• Braemar Rise
• Bramble Road
• Bretton Close
• Bretton View
• Briar Grove
• Brierley Road
• Brighton Street
• Brook Close
• Broomcliffe Gardens
• Burnt Wood Lane
• Burntwood Road
• Buttercross Drive
• Byron Street
• Cadwell Close
• Calvey Orchard

Check an address in S72

Check an address in S72

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=S72" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about S72

What does an S72 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the S72 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Cudworth. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 715 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest S72

• S714.3 km
• WF95.5 km
• S736.0 km
• S706.9 km
• S637.8 km
• S758.8 km
• S979.1 km
• S749.3 km
• WF710.1 km
• WF411.3 km
• S6411.5 km
• WF9012.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids